u have passed sme charecters thru parm parameter in jcl. how do u
code in cobol to recieve the values u gave in parm ?

Answer Posted / graham

by using 'USING' keyword in procedure division and dataname.
one restriction is, declaring length variable and dataname
in linkage section of covol program.

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